Word: venetians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spas have become experiences, somewhere between theater and sin. Thick swaddling robes, mineral water and wine, gourmet buffets, fresh flowers and piped-in music are typical features. In Las Vegas, Canyon Ranch has opened a 61,000-sq.-ft. day spa--the largest in the country--at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino. Soak and get an underwater massage in a private pool filled with flowers, or stay dry and pick one of the 18 other options, like the Balinese or Indian oil rubs. For the piece de resistance, visitors soon will be able to steam and swathe themselves...
Among its many technological wonders, the library boasted Ra-Tox venetian blinds, "the world's most modern windows" by Thermopane, Celotex acoustical ceilings, the Sikes "Seats of Knowledge," Art Metal Steel book stacks and a state-of-the-art air conditioning system by the G.A. Berman...
...than as listenable musical experience. The constellation of instruments employed was nothing short of bizarre. Glennie began with her back to the audience, bowing what looked to be a broken birdcage, then moved by turns to something resembling a giant pencil sharpener and something else resembling a strip of Venetian blind. The sounds were quite fresh but didn't add up to anything organic to challenge the brain beyond the ear. Glennie's infallible sense of rhythm, however, made for some breathtaking-polyrhythmic feats...
...anyone knows, Sargent never had--or was even rumored to have had--a sexual relationship in his whole life; nor did he ever do a painting of a nude. His sensuality was wholly visual and confined to the surface of things--the confused glitter of light on a Venetian canal, the rumplings of fabric, the porcelain skin of an upper-class face. The sexiest picture in this show is Two Girls in White Dresses, circa 1909-11. (It is actually one girl, his niece, painted twice, lying on an Alpine hillside.) Except for the faces, not an inch of skin...
Struggling with tiny grates and dusty fireplaces, the boys in the Yard lived in cold and uncomfortable conditions. Their creature comforts were not Venetian mirrors and chaise lounges, but broken-down furniture and a Harvard pennant...